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The cards are down, and two proposed casinos in Manhattan are out of the running in the first votes on projects across the region vying for up to three new state licenses.

In votes Wednesday morning, local advisory committees nixed a gambling complex proposed for Times Square and another near Hudson Yards.

The Avenir sought to bring 1,000 hotel rooms and a casino to a site near the Javits Center to be developed by Silverstein Properties. The other, Caesars Palace Times Square, would have redeveloped an existing tower in the famed Manhattan hub to create

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